Conservative

Famous quotes containing the word conservative:

“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)

“The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his social frame is a hospital, his total legislation is for the present distress, a universe in slippers and flannels, with bib and papspoon, swallowing pills and herb-tea.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“I never dared to be radical when young
For fear it would make me conservative when old.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)